National Green Growth Roadmap 2009.

This National Green Growth Roadmap 2009 is a multi-sectoral policy document developed by the Ministry of Environment (MoE) to integrate ideas and projects on green growth into national strategic development. This roadmap is expected to create the basis for environmentally sound economic development through promotion of sustainable consumption and production, greening the market and green business, development of sustainable infrastructure, green tax and budget reform, and monitoring eco‐efficiency indicators.
The Green Growth Roadmap has three broad objectives. In the short term (2‐5 years), it will make a major contribution to stimulating the economy, saving and creating jobs, and protecting vulnerable groups and ensuring the environmental sustainability; while in the medium term (5‐10 years), it will further promote sustainable and inclusive growth and the achievement of the CMDGs for economic development and social and environmental stability; and finally in the long‐term (10‐20 years), it will contribute to the reduction of Cambodia’s carbon dependency and ecosystem degradation – all in favor of sustained economic growth and poverty reduction.
The Roadmap focuses on identifying and describing interventions that can improve quality of life by focusing on increasing access to basic goods and services, including: Access to clean water and sanitation; Access to renewable energy; Access to information and knowledge; Access to means for better mobility; Access to finance and investments; Access to food security (agriculture) and non‐chemical products; and Access to sustainable land‐use.
The Green Growth Roadmap seeks to address challenges with the holistic approach, so as to take the opportunity to positively influence economic growth towards environmental sustainability, poverty reduction, and livelihood improvement. In the short term (2‐5 Years), it propose to: A. Create a National Ministerial Green Growth Council; B. Create a national public awareness and consultation process; C. Integrate the eco‐village/eco‐city initiatives into national strategic development plan; D. Develop national strategy for Greening industries: based on resource efficiency and 3R strategies; E. Develop stimulus measures for promotion of sustainable agriculture including index‐based insurance schemes and/or micro‐financing; and F. Develop a scheme for innovative investments (can carry on through‐out medium and long terms). G. Develop measures to strengthen the national environmental industry sector. In the In the medium‐term (5‐10 years), project ideas focus on sustainable rural development – in line with Cambodia’s decentralization and deconcentration (D&D) strategy; interventions to further sustainable development in sectors of agriculture, energy, forestry and water, waste management, and transportation. For the long term (10‐20 years) the suggested interventions will further promote sustainable and inclusive growth and the achievement of the CMDGs for economic development and social and environmental stability.
In addition, the Roadmap seeks to improve resilience to adverse impacts, whilst choose low‐carbon options for “green growth” to mitigate and adapt to a changing climate.